Cyber Bullying >> There are different tactics of cyber bullying in Michael Nuccitelli’s post that are currently happening in 2015. Out of the 42 types, the biggest and most common types of cyber bullying are; social media, happy slapping, and flaming. Social media bullying is when the predator, bullies behind the screen of a network and targets a person on a social networks such as; Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. They either threaten by emailing or harassing a target. Mostly young teens on social media are effected either by Facebook, text messages, twitter, snap chat you name it! There are steps one could take to prevent from being a victim of cyberbullying. One should not post or share anything of yourself to anyone, especially strangers. Once something is on the internet it is on there forever. One shouldn’t add people they don’t know. In order to be safe, only add friends and people you know in real life. The most current type of cyber bullying is Happy Slapping. Happy Slapping is when a perpetrator videotapes a victim getting bullied and posts it up on social medias. Some examples of happy slapping videos are; fights, someone older or younger bullying another person, and people who are drunk at parties. Lastly, Flaming is where someone puts down a victim by his or her appearance or race, and argues for no good reason in social media. It is important to know how to recognize or tell who the Flamers are, how to deal with the flaming, and how to be an up stander. >> There are steps one should take in order to help prevent being a victim of Cyber bullying. Schools acknowledge that Cyber Bullying is an issue in this era, especially with the rise in technology and the media. (Landau) In the California Department of Education website titled “Sample Policy for Bullying Prevention” understands that students have rights to a safety-learning environment, which includes being a bully free zone. They won't tolerate any form of bullying; big or small, physical or verbal. The district anticipates that either students, or staff report it to a higher power in the school like the principal. California’s Schools District is required to attend training in bullying prevention. The schools have a student code and procedures for putting a halt to Cyber Bullying. The student code states that any child that bully’s another student could be expelled. The policy is given to parents and students on the first day of school. The school takes action as fast as possible also keeping it confidential. Students also have a role in preventing bullying. They must not use any form of violence, fellow classmates should help victims of bullying, and contact adults. >> There are many ways to prevent cyber bullying of any type, one just needs to be aware of all the different types of bullying and what one can do to protect yourself from harm. First and foremost, one needs to be aware of what cyber bullying is. Next, keep your information private; no giving out passwords, usernames, security question answers and any other information to log onto any accounts. When using any social networking website, make sure you have control of who sees your posts, follows you, friends you, and so on. People constantly post a lot of statuses, pictures, and videos online. We have to be aware of how people see, or think of us based on what we say or show. We need to keep any and all pictures we post rated “PG” or “G”. Don’t post anything explicit online that someone can use against you, for it could make people upset. When posting statuses, make sure you think before you post anything, you don’t want to say something in the heat of the moment that you will later regret. Another thing that can be done is “Googling” yourself; type in your name to see if anything personal comes up (photos/information) from someone you don’t know and have it removed if there are. When you use computers, either public or personal, make sure you sign out of all the accounts that you logged into so no one can hack into your accounts or take any security information. You can help others be defenders by raising awareness to your community, classroom, or even your neighborhood. Help yourself by helping others understand what it is so they are able to see signs of the start of cyber bullying. The most important thing you can do to prevent cyber bullying is to not be one yourself. Even if people are aware of what it is, they can still be bullies. If you don’t want to be bullied by anyone, don’t do it to others. >> The purpose of the lessons among teens is to make them aware and understand about the problem of cyber-bullying. It teaches strategies that are effective to prevent cyber-bullying. Lesson 1 will explore what cyber-bullying is and why it's a problem by having the class participate in a survey based on cyber-bullying. Next, students will be shown videos and presentations. Then the class will have a open discussion what they saw and think from the videos. Lesson 2 will identify the different types of cyber-bullying such as texting, mean comments, making mean images of people open to the public, and other things like role-play scenarios. Students will have the choice to present their scene using poster, props, PowerPoint, etc. Then the class will have a discussion what they saw through the different role-plays presented. Lesson 3 will show effective strategies to prevent cyber-bullying with scenarios again using positive conducts that will be given. For example a group will present their previous scene from lesson 2 but will add the positive strategy that is given to them to show that cyber-bulling can be prevented.. Along will lesson 4, student will create positive notes or letters to one another telling how great each individual is and what they like about them (Project). Lesson 5 will have students participate to pledge online that they are aware and will now stand up against cyber-bullying (Ditigal). >> There are many types of bullying that occurs in schools today. The most prevalent in modern day is cyberbullying. Cybervullying, unlike face-to-face bullying, occurs when a student or group of students targets an individual or individuals at a time, by using a form of online mediums to display aggression or domination of the victims. Cyberbullying can further be distinguished into three different levels. The levels stem into verbal, emotional, or physical situations. For example, a level one verbal type of cyberbullying includes gossiping on social media, or sending rumored emails. Level Two would include threatening harm to someone based off of their gender or race. Level three would be if someone were continuously making physical harm threats, to the point where the person on the receiving side is afraid for their life. These would be beneficial to discuss with students to make sure that they have an understanding of what can be considered against state regulations and what is also considered to be illegal. That way student’s can work on thinking twice about what actions or words they may say. In the website titled stopbullying.gov articulates the steps one can take to document and report cyberbullying behavior. The first step when being a victim of cyber bullying is to not respond to the messages, instead record the evidence by saving screenshots should later be reported to web and cell phone providers. One must also block the person who is cyberbullying them. In order to report cyberbullying to online service providers one must; review their terms and conditions, learn how to block users, and report it so they can take action. Then one must report cyberbullying to law enforcement if there is any threats of violence, child pornography, pictures or videos of someone when they expect privacy, or stalking and hate crimes. Finally, victims of cyberbullying should report cyberbullying to schools, for it could disrupt their environment. Schools then address it to their anti-bullying policy, some schools even take charge of adverse behavior that occurs off campus as well. The CNN article written by Elizabeth Landau, has everything you need to know about cyberbullying. There is a section where she writes about how one can report cyberbullying. She beings by giving examples and explaining how cyberbullying wasn’t taken seriously back then, but now with the technology change, it has become more serious. A website titles WeStopHate.org is a nonprofit organization where victims of bullying can share their stories.
>> There are different tactics of cyber bullying in Michael Nuccitelli’s post that are currently happening in 2015. Out of the 42 types, the biggest and most common types of cyber bullying are; social media, happy slapping, and flaming. Social media bullying is when the predator, bullies behind the screen of a network and targets a person on a social networks such as; Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. They either threaten by emailing or harassing a target. Mostly young teens on social media are effected either by Facebook, text messages, twitter, snap chat you name it! There are steps one could take to prevent from being a victim of cyberbullying. One should not post or share anything of yourself to anyone, especially strangers. Once something is on the internet it is on there forever. One shouldn’t add people they don’t know. In order to be safe, only add friends and people you know in real life. The most current type of cyber bullying is Happy Slapping. Happy Slapping is when a perpetrator videotapes a victim getting bullied and posts it up on social medias. Some examples of happy slapping videos are; fights, someone older or younger bullying another person, and people who are drunk at parties. Lastly, Flaming is where someone puts down a victim by his or her appearance or race, and argues for no good reason in social media. It is important to know how to recognize or tell who the Flamers are, how to deal with the flaming, and how to be an up stander.
>> There are steps one should take in order to help prevent being a victim of Cyber bullying. Schools acknowledge that Cyber Bullying is an issue in this era, especially with the rise in technology and the media. (Landau) In the California Department of Education website titled “Sample Policy for Bullying Prevention” understands that students have rights to a safety-learning environment, which includes being a bully free zone. They won't tolerate any form of bullying; big or small, physical or verbal. The district anticipates that either students, or staff report it to a higher power in the school like the principal. California’s Schools District is required to attend training in bullying prevention. The schools have a student code and procedures for putting a halt to Cyber Bullying. The student code states that any child that bully’s another student could be expelled. The policy is given to parents and students on the first day of school. The school takes action as fast as possible also keeping it confidential. Students also have a role in preventing bullying. They must not use any form of violence, fellow classmates should help victims of bullying, and contact adults.
>> There are many ways to prevent cyber bullying of any type, one just needs to be aware of all the different types of bullying and what one can do to protect yourself from harm. First and foremost, one needs to be aware of what cyber bullying is. Next, keep your information private; no giving out passwords, usernames, security question answers and any other information to log onto any accounts. When using any social networking website, make sure you have control of who sees your posts, follows you, friends you, and so on. People constantly post a lot of statuses, pictures, and videos online. We have to be aware of how people see, or think of us based on what we say or show. We need to keep any and all pictures we post rated “PG” or “G”. Don’t post anything explicit online that someone can use against you, for it could make people upset. When posting statuses, make sure you think before you post anything, you don’t want to say something in the heat of the moment that you will later regret. Another thing that can be done is “Googling” yourself; type in your name to see if anything personal comes up (photos/information) from someone you don’t know and have it removed if there are. When you use computers, either public or personal, make sure you sign out of all the accounts that you logged into so no one can hack into your accounts or take any security information. You can help others be defenders by raising awareness to your community, classroom, or even your neighborhood. Help yourself by helping others understand what it is so they are able to see signs of the start of cyber bullying. The most important thing you can do to prevent cyber bullying is to not be one yourself. Even if people are aware of what it is, they can still be bullies. If you don’t want to be bullied by anyone, don’t do it to others.
>> The purpose of the lessons among teens is to make them aware and understand about the problem of cyber-bullying. It teaches strategies that are effective to prevent cyber-bullying. Lesson 1 will explore what cyber-bullying is and why it's a problem by having the class participate in a survey based on cyber-bullying. Next, students will be shown videos and presentations. Then the class will have a open discussion what they saw and think from the videos. Lesson 2 will identify the different types of cyber-bullying such as texting, mean comments, making mean images of people open to the public, and other things like role-play scenarios. Students will have the choice to present their scene using poster, props, PowerPoint, etc. Then the class will have a discussion what they saw through the different role-plays presented. Lesson 3 will show effective strategies to prevent cyber-bullying with scenarios again using positive conducts that will be given. For example a group will present their previous scene from lesson 2 but will add the positive strategy that is given to them to show that cyber-bulling can be prevented.. Along will lesson 4, student will create positive notes or letters to one another telling how great each individual is and what they like about them (Project). Lesson 5 will have students participate to pledge online that they are aware and will now stand up against cyber-bullying (Ditigal).
>> There are many types of bullying that occurs in schools today. The most prevalent in modern day is cyberbullying. Cybervullying, unlike face-to-face bullying, occurs when a student or group of students targets an individual or individuals at a time, by using a form of online mediums to display aggression or domination of the victims. Cyberbullying can further be distinguished into three different levels. The levels stem into verbal, emotional, or physical situations. For example, a level one verbal type of cyberbullying includes gossiping on social media, or sending rumored emails. Level Two would include threatening harm to someone based off of their gender or race. Level three would be if someone were continuously making physical harm threats, to the point where the person on the receiving side is afraid for their life. These would be beneficial to discuss with students to make sure that they have an understanding of what can be considered against state regulations and what is also considered to be illegal. That way student’s can work on thinking twice about what actions or words they may say.
In the website titled stopbullying.gov articulates the steps one can take to document and report cyberbullying behavior. The first step when being a victim of cyber bullying is to not respond to the messages, instead record the evidence by saving screenshots should later be reported to web and cell phone providers. One must also block the person who is cyberbullying them. In order to report cyberbullying to online service providers one must; review their terms and conditions, learn how to block users, and report it so they can take action. Then one must report cyberbullying to law enforcement if there is any threats of violence, child pornography, pictures or videos of someone when they expect privacy, or stalking and hate crimes. Finally, victims of cyberbullying should report cyberbullying to schools, for it could disrupt their environment. Schools then address it to their anti-bullying policy, some schools even take charge of adverse behavior that occurs off campus as well. The CNN article written by Elizabeth Landau, has everything you need to know about cyberbullying. There is a section where she writes about how one can report cyberbullying. She beings by giving examples and explaining how cyberbullying wasn’t taken seriously back then, but now with the technology change, it has become more serious. A website titles WeStopHate.org is a nonprofit organization where victims of bullying can share their stories.
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